I Just Want To Be As Good

I Grew Up In Los Angeles In A Quaker Family, And For Me Being Quaker Was A Political Calling Rather Than A Religious One.

I'm Sure I Would Have Been Considered A More Significant Artist If I Was A Singer-songwriter. It's Just Not The Way I Roll. I Love Being A Curator And A Musicologist. People Write Me Letters And Thank Me For Turning Them On To Fred Mcdowell And Sippie Wallace, And That's Partly My Job This Time Around.

The Consolidation Of The Music Business Has Made It Difficult To Encourage Styles Like The Blues, All Of Which Deserve To Be Celebrated As Part Of Our Most Treasured National Resources.

I Think That We Have A Unique Opportunity As Performers And Artists To Be Kind Of The Town Criers And Also To Get More People To Listen, So That's A Blessing And A Responsibility That I Take Very Seriously.

There's So Many Amazing Articles Coming Out All The Time And Because Of The Internet Circulating Great Writing - Even If The Writers Don't Get Paid Enough Most Of The Time, Unfortunately - But There's Never Been A More Amazing Flow Of Information On All Of The Issues. I Would Love To See A Revival Of What We Had Against The War In The '60s - We Could Do Thes